Answered Prayers

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life. If Answered Prayers isn't a creature, it becomes a 3/3 Angel creature with flying in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Discussion (6)

multimedia on Ravos/Tymna commander

1 month ago

Hey, since your deck is low budget consider adding more cards to take advantage of your best card? Your best card is Tymna :)

You have the right idea with wanting to add Kunoros and Kambal. Kunoros because of menace evasion, lifelink and it's a hatebear. Kambal because he can be a repeatable source of life gain. With Tymna you want more creatures who have evasion so they can more easily do combat damage.

White has many good budget flying creatures. Hatebears who fly and can also disrupt your opponents are good in multiplayer Commander: Aven Mindcensor, Kinjalli's Sunwing, Hushbringer, Tomik, Distinguished Advokist, Archon of Absolution. Flying creatures who can create flying tokens: Emeria Angel, Archon of Sun's Grace can be repeatable sources of flying creatures. You also want more repeatable sources of life gain to safely keep triggering Tymna: Soul Warden, Soul's Attendant, Wingmate Roc, Answered Prayers.

Cards that create flying tokens are nice to go wide which helps to attack more than one opponent. Spirit Bonds and Sacred Mesa can be repeatable source of flying tokens. Lingering Souls, Spectral Procession, Battle Screech, Midnight Haunting create flying tokens. Entreat the Angels can create a lot of 4/4 Angels. With more creatures with flying then you can play Sephara, Sky's Blade who has a powerful effect for flying creatures, has lifelink and other flying creatures reduce her casting cost.

Other budget cards ($1-$2 or less each) to consider adding:

• Lands: Command Tower, Tainted Field, Esper Panorama, Terramorphic Expanse, Ash Barrens, Orzhov Basilica
• Ramp: Talisman of Hierarchy, Dark Ritual, Heraldic Banner
• Fliers: Remorseful Cleric, Healer's Hawk, Vampire Nighthawk, Aerial Responder
• Tutors: Diabolic Tutor
• Removal: Swords to Plowshares, Kaya's Guile, Mortify
• Removal: Heliod's Intervention, Cleansing Nova

I offer more advice including what cards to cut. Would you like more advice?

Good luck with your deck.

Izzy- on The Edgiest Mono-White Deck You’ve Ever Seen

2 months ago

I'd consider cutting Answered Prayers if its in here for the lifegain. The additional effect of Answered Prayers, of becoming an angel, I think is negligible. Maybe consider Daxos, Blessed by the Sun, which continues the lifegain theme, is less mana and is another body to trigger other similar effects. Daxos additionally gives you a decent blocker if needed. While he is a little more easy to remove given two typings, you do have multiple enchantment recur effects to consider it.

You got a couple of Snow-Lands, so maybe consider, On Thin Ice, its removal, and can be recurred here if removed.

While Mana Vault, and Mana Crypt allow for fast mana plus the bonus of self-inflicting damage for Darien, Basalt Monolith seems a little less helpful here. It does provide fast mana, but only once and then it usually sits there until you have the resources to untap it. I'd consider Extraplanar Lens it comes the same turn and provides asymmetrical ramp for you (unless your meta runs a lot of snow plains?). Even if Extraplanar isn't your preference, I still would prefer to fit other ramp in here besides Basalt, which usually shines in decks that can untap it to abuse of it more.

That said it seems like a great deck, I've seen a my fair share of Darien decks, and this seems like one of the more consistent and fun ones to play.

Barbarian_Sun_Pope on Azorius Lifegain

3 months ago

It seems like you want to focus on the life gain theme since you want to increase the number of Ajani's Pridemate s.

I would suggest looking into a small recursion theme with cards like Soul Herder / Mistmeadow Witch / Nephalia Smuggler .

To make more use of the lifegain:

• Angelic Accord + Trading Post / Answered Prayers / Path of Bravery

If you want to further focus on powering up Ajani's Pridemate I would suggest looking into a deck type referred to as "Soul Sisters" that focuses on combining the Pridemates with Soul Warden / Soul's Attendant .

Spirits on Arahbo, Xenagos... for Cats EDH

4 months ago

shaynejamesgold,

Maybe something like this:

Felidar Guardian + Restoration Angel or Wispweaver Angel

Also works with things like:

Aluren + Whitemane Lion or Fleetfoot Panther

Then utilize:

Ajani's Welcome or Angelic Chorus or Anointer Priest or Answered Prayers or Essence Warden or Healer of the Pride or Impassioned Orator or Leyline of Vitality or Soul Warden or Soul's Attendant or Suture Priest or Trostani, Selesnya's Voice or Verdant Sun's Avatar | Infinite Life

Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit or Cathars' Crusade or Champion of Lambholt or Juniper Order Ranger | Infinite +1 Counters

Bronzebeak Moa or Goldnight Commander or Griffin Protector or Herd Gnarr or Mantle of Leadership or Sanctifier of Souls or Valor in Akros | Temp +1

Elemental Bond or Garruk's Packleader or Soul of the Harvest or The Great Henge | Infinite Draw

Genesis Chamber | Infinite tokens

Path of Discovery | Something with graveyard

Altar of the Brood | Infinite mill

Etc... It's a plan, didn't say it was a good plan? Anything here Aluren + should combo off with other stuff, just not sure to what end.

StopShot on Pauper - Mardu Enchantress - ...

9 months ago

@Blue_Flame, I thought about Answered Prayers . It's only really consistent if I have a sac outlet meaning it would only work with my other wincon Bogardan Dragonheart or by chance of top-decking a creature. If I want another aerial beater I'd like it to work more independently or have a more direct synergy with my deck.

Blue_Flame on Pauper - Mardu Enchantress - ...

9 months ago

Your manabase seems pretty good, I don't think 6 taplands is too little, plus you have Ash Barrens to find the basics you need.

I think your deck could utilize the new Answered Prayers from Modern Horizons pretty well - you have a decent number of creatures and plenty of ways to recur it.

The Bogardan Dragonheart - Kaya's Ghostform - Ironclad Slayer / Monk Idealist package seems kind of interesting; I'm interested to see how that works out in practice, but initally it seems clunky/slow to me.

I think if you were to make room to add TortEx/Grave Scrabbler it would indeed dilute too much away from your initial strategy. Your deck currently lacks ways to fuel cards into the graveyard like typical TortEx builds like Commune with the Gods and Vessel of Nascency , which are outside of your deck's colors. Maybe if you switched to Abzan instead of Mardu it could work, but as of now it just seems kinda unrealistic.